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Steve Allen

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Wikimp3 information about the music of Steve Allen. On our website we have 70 albums and 70 collections of artist Steve Allen. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Steve Allen represents Dancefloor genres.

Biography

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For someone of Steve Allen's versatility and staggering capacity for work, jazz occupied a small yet significant portion of his biography. Yet despite his crowded agenda, Allen could still spin out facile, competent, bop-and-cocktail-flavored piano in fast jazz company — nothing particularly original but always pleasurable to hear. He started to play the piano while a child — his parents were traveling vaudeville performers — but the keyboard soon had to take a back seat to his media career, first on radio and then on television. Best known as a comedian and the first host of the American TV institution The Tonight Show (September 1954 to January 1957), Allen frequently played piano and sang on his shows and used them as a forum to present guests from the jazz world. He also played the lead role in the film The Benny Goodman Story in 1955, produced the TV series Jazz Scene USA in 1962, and narrated a history of jazz on records, The Jazz Story (Coral). Allen recorded frequently for Coral, Dot, Roulette, EmArcy, and Decca during the peak of his TV fame, and as late as 1992 he taped an enjoyable mainstream set for Concord Jazz, Plays Jazz Tonight. In addition to some 43 books, Allen claimed to have written (as of 1994) more than 4,700 songs, of which only a bare handful — "This Could Be the Start of Something (Big)," "Gravy Waltz," "Impossible" — have staked claims in the repertoire. Ultimately, his most valuable contribution to jazz was as a cheerleader in the mass media. Steve Allen died in Encino, California, in October 2000 at the age of 78. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi

Title: Variegates

Artist: Steve Allen

Genre: Trance

Title: Snacks

Artist: Steve Allen

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Title: Jazz For Tonight

Artist: Steve Allen

Genre: Jazz

Title: Fpmmt (Maxi-Single)

Artist: Steve Allen

Genre: Trance

Collections

Title: 100 Swing for Dance

Genre: Jazz

Title: 101 Big Bands Swing

Genre: Jazz

Title: Music for California

Genre: Pop

Title: The Kings of Komedy

Genre:

Title: Sexy Trance # 31

Genre: Trance

Featuring albums

Title: 11.11

Artist: Haris C, Alexis Mixail

Genre: Trance

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